Moths of Nepal. Part 1-5 - Toshiro Haruta

Part 1: Tokyo, Japan Heterocerist's Society, 1992, 122 pp. in full color, 18 x 26 cm, soft cover, ISSN 0493-3168, good condition

Part 2: Tokyo, Japan Heterocerist's Society, 1992, 160 pp. in full color, 18 x 26 cm, soft cover, ISSN 0493-3168, good condition

Part 3: Tokyo, Japan Heterocerist's Society, 1994, 171 pp. in full color, 18 x 26 cm, soft cover, ISSN 0493-3168, good condition

Part 4: Tokyo, Japan Heterocerist's Society, 1995, 206 pp. in full color, 18 x 26 cm, soft cover, ISSN 0493-3168, good condition

Part 5: Tokyo, Japan Heterocerist's Society, 1998, 314 pp. in full color, 18 x 26 cm, soft cover, ISSN 0493-3168, good condition

Mr Toshiro Haruta, the editor of this series, suddenly died of heart attack on September 17, 1996.

Mr Toshiro Haruta was bom on December 13, 1923, and graduated from the Tokyo University, Agricultural Department. He belonged to the Alpine club of the Unversity and climbed to a lot of Japanese mountains. At the same time he started to study the Lepidoptera. After graduating from the university, he worked as a biological teacher at a public high school in Tokyo, and he vigorously collected the lepidopterous insects, especially moths.

His rich collection contributed deeply to the understanding of the moth fauna of Japan. He was also a pioneer in the field of the Alpine moths of Japan. In 1963, he visited Nepal as the leader of the Japanese Expedition to the Nepal Himalaya organized by the Lepidpterological Society of Japan, which brought a fruitful result. Later he had consecutively held the position of assistant principal and principal of public high schools in Tokyo, and during these years he went on collecting trips to New Guinea, Borneo, and Taiwan. After retirement, he devoted himself to the study of the moth fauna of Nepal, visiting Nepal two or three times a year, and he and his colleagues accumulated a large amount of material.

He concentrated on publishing this series as the editor of part 1 to part 4, but he died suddenly while providing a further issue. All of the authors of this series would like to pay great respect to, and to express their gratitude for, the services done in his lifetime, and pray for the repose of his soul.

His rich collection comprised of more than 500 cabinets of butterflies and moths was housed in the Chuo Museum of Chiba Prefecture, Chiba.